Advice on how to continue learning japanese please!?

A while ago I used rosetta stones 6month trial for japanesen and I liked it. However, due to the work load of school I only finished about half of the trialm Now I would like to continue and finnish learning japanese. What series of japanese language books or advanced (higher level) books would you recomend to me? everone of the books that I can find are all for begginers.Advice on how to continue learning japanese please!?
I tried rosetta stone for Spanish. It does not have any translation, grammar or conjugation instructions so it will be very hard to go beyond the basics with it. It is good for the basics as it is pure memorization. There is no way to be fluent with it. Their program is based on the same thing where you see these 4 pictures over and over again. I was disappointed especially for the price I paid.





My college uses another software: tell me more. My goal was to become fluent so it was perfect for me and I bought their individual version. It has a lot of different activities: picture/word association, videos, dialogues,..., includes also grammar and conjugation. It has also more content than any other language software. Their speech recognition is great so you can have a dialogue with the computer. You can contact them to get a free demo and also ask for a Rosetta Stone demo to compare, visit independent reviews websites(About.com, ...).





The best way to learn a language would be through immersion, visiting these countries. Learning a language will require some time. In addition to software, you can have books which are useful as well. Audio CDs like Pimsleur for instance might help you out but you cannot get any feedback on your pronunciation so I did not like it so muchAdvice on how to continue learning japanese please!?
I don't know how far you are in, but...can't you learn it in college classes too?? like at a community college. Why didn't you just have it as like a minor in school. That's what I am doing. I'm majoring in Electrical Engineering. I am also majoring in Japanese, which only requires me to take all the Japanese language courses and not many other classes like about history and stuff.





I don't know...most california colleges have them..thats where i live..





anyways..look up Japanese for Busy people..its a three book series..maybe you can start at book 2 or something. You can find them on amazon or at Barnes and noble or borders.





with only six months experience..I'm assuming you should still start off in book 1. If you can't read my name..you didn't learn anything. All the books come with audio cds..very good.
http://www.infocobuild.com/language/japa…





This is a collection of online resources for learning Japanese, including the basics of Hiragana and Katakana, grammar lessons, Kanji, vocabulary, and useful expressions.